Big corporate events or holiday parties have tons of finger food and free drinks—two things that can easily make you look like a fool if you’re not careful. These tips will help you keep it classy and stay composed.

If you’re debating whether to read the letter your time-traveling friend wrote you, “What the hell?” is an okay justification. However, if you’re about to utterly ruin your diet because you already had a tiny slice of cake, maybe don’t give in so easily.

Ideally, your boss will communicate with you over the course of a year to let you know what you’re doing right, what you’re doing wrong, and where you need to improve. If they’re not and you’re blindsided at your performance review, here’s how to recover.

Taking care of your most important task at the beginning of your work day is one of the best pieces of productivity advice floating around. But it only helps if you actually follow through with your work the rest of the day.

If you’ve ever written software, you know that if-then statements are the building blocks of any program. That same logic can work on yourself. Using simple if-then or when-then constructs, you can change your own habits.

You’d think a salary negotiation is the last place you’d want to crack wise, but there is one type of joke that can actually influence your salary offer for the better. It all comes down to the “anchoring” effect.

When you don’t have obvious metrics and numbers to put on your resume, you have to do a little more work to figure out how to show your success. Here are some questions to ask yourself so you can list your accomplishments in an easily digestible way.

When you disagree with a corporate policy, think your coworker’s idea is terrible, or are convinced your boss isn’t going to get the best results with the program she wants to implement, the solution seems easy: Voice your opposition—right?

When you dread having to do a task, you put it off. You probably view it as cumbersome and tedious. However, in many cases, you might actually enjoy the task once you’re doing it. Remind yourself of how you feel while getting stuff done to get the motivation to start.

Networking is important to finding a job, a mentor, and moving forward in your career, but depending on where you are on the career ladder, some connections are more helpful than others. Here are the people who will help you most at each stage of your career.

You probably shouldn’t get emails from your boss on holidays, but it might happen anyway. In those situations, use brief responses that say you’ll deal with it later to respond. Or better yet, set up a vacation auto-responder.

We often discuss the importance of taking more breaks to be more productive, but the folks at PayScale have put together a great explanation for exactly why you shouldn’t work more than 90 minutes at a time, and part of it has to do with our basic rest activity cycle.

Skills, experience, and expertise are obviously important when it comes to moving forward in your career. That said, many employers look beyond those traits in a leader. According to a recent survey, the top trait they look for is integrity.

Having a good work ethic means more than just showing up and putting in the minimum necessary. If you have a hard time getting in the mindset of a dedicated worker, start by building work around your passion.

Your to-do list is supposed to help keep you organized, but you still have to do a lot of the grunt work to manage your schedule. Todoist wants to make it easier by suggesting the best times to get your tasks done based on your habits.

If you want to make extra cash on the side, there are plenty of options out there from Airbnb to Lyft to Etsy. You’ve probably heard this referred to as the gig, sharing, or on-demand economy. Whatever you want to call it, if you earn any of your income this way, you have to think about taxes. Here’s what you need to…